I’m working on some analysis of the music that comes out of human+computer music performances. One of the problems is working out what I should/could be looking for. There is a shit-ton of analysis of notes-on-paper music, a little of electroacoustic/acousmatic, hardly any of improv. Following the EA route as the closest match, the idea […]

27 May 2015 The 2nd workshop on the philosophy of human+computer music has been set. Paper sessions and a keynote performance from Pete Furniss – call and registration details here.

27 March 2015 I will be presenting my work at the City University listening group.

I recently organised a Royal Musical Association Music Philosophy Study Group workshop on philosophy of human+computer music, held here at the University of Sheffield. We had keynotes in the morning, then a whole afternoon of discussion with live music. Further details of what we were trying to achieve can be found  here. It seemed to go […]

I gave a paper at a CRASSH-hosted conference, Creativity, Circulation and Copyright: Sonic and Visual Media in the Digital Age. The event was live-blogged by Joe Bennett, the post about my paper is here. My abstract was as follows: Human-machine creative collaboration and copyright: improvisation-driven music systems Copyright can be problematic in areas unforeseen by legislators. […]

11 January 2014  Soundthought CCA, Glasgow, 7pm MS Laminate “It started strongly with the straightforward but powerfully effective Laminate by Mark Summers, in which the fragile clicks and scratchings he drew from his expressive caressing of a viola da gamba were looped through four speakers surrounding the listeners, building to a dense, thick wall of sound that […]